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Filmfront Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933)
by Bernadette Kester
Amsterdam University Press, 2003 Paper: 978-90-5356-597-1 | Cloth: 978-90-5356-598-8 | eISBN: 978-90-485-0519-7 Library of Congress Classification D522.23.K4713 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43658
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
How was Germany's experience of World War I depicted in film during the following years? Drawing on analysis of the films of the Weimar era—documentaries and feature films addressing the war's causes, life at the front, war at sea, and the home front—Bernadette Kester sketches out the historical context, including reviews and censors' reports, in which these films were made and viewed, and offers much insight into how Germans collectively perceived World War I during its aftermath and beyond.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bernadette Kester is affiliated to the Institute of Military History in the Hague.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents - 6 Preface and Acknowledgements - 10 Introduction - 12 The aftermath of the First World War - 12 The War Experience - 13 Research into war films: film historians - 17 Siegfried Kracauer - 20 Cultural historians: Eksteins, Winter and Mosse - 22 Carrying out the research - 26 Press sources - 29 Chapter arrangement - 31 Chapter 1: 'Lehrreich und amüsant' - Historical films in the period 1896-1933 - 34 German film industry during the First World War - 37 Bufa and Ufa - 40 Screening the war - 42 Film in the Weimar Republic - 46 Censorship - 47 The military in film - 50 From relative stability to crisis - 54 Chapter 2: 'Die Legende von der Unschuld' - Films about the run-up to the war, especially 1914. Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand - 60 The Weimar Republic and the Kriegsschulddebatte - 61 1914. Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand - 64 'Zensur - der böse Engel' - 70 Emil Ludwig and the Kriegsschuldfrage - 72 Der Doppelmord von Sarajewo - 76 Brandstifter Europas - 78 Critical reception of 1914 - 81 Political context - 83 Chapter 3: 'Das Dokumentarische gewinnt die Oberhand' - Archival footage and constructions in war films - 88 Der Weltkrieg, an official outlook on the war - 91 The beginning of the war - 96 The battles of Liège, Tannenberg and the Marne River - 98 The battle of Ypres, the myth of Langemarck - 100 The battles at Verdun and the Somme - 103 Fort Douaumont at Verdun - 104 The battle at the Somme - 105 Somme and Douaumont, monuments for the unknown soldier - 107 Tannenberg - 113 History and tragedy - 116 Tannenberg without Von Hindenburg - 114 Chapter 4: 'Wenn wir Helden wären, wären wir schon längst daheim' - Realism and anti-war tendencies in four films - 124 Literary context: war literature - 124 Namenlose Helden - 126 Westfront 1918 - 128 The war scene - 132 Cinematography - 135 Die andere Seite - 137 Niemandsland - 142 National identities - 145 The reviews - 148 Comradeship, heroism and nationality - 153 Chapter 5: 'Auf dem Meere, da ist der Mann noch etwas wert' - Films about the German navy during the First - 162 The surface ships - 165 Unsere Emden and Kreuzer Emden - 165 Criticism, mythologisation and intertextuality - 169 Scapa Flow and the navy rebellion - 173 The U-boat films - 176 Die versunkene Flotte and U9 Weddigen - 176 Critical reviews - 181 Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - 182 Morgenrot - 184 The press - 190 Chapter 6: 'Neid, Leid, Tränen - das ist der Krieg' - Gender and war films - 194 Das deutsche Mutterherz and Deutsche Frauen - Deutsche Treue - 195 Motherhood and fatherland - 199 Suffering and love in other war films - 201 Companionship and betrayal: Ich hatt' einen Kameraden - 207 Husbands coming back home: Feldgrau and Heimkehr - 213 Epilogue - 220 The various narratives - 221 Myths - 224 Critical assessment - 225 Complex representations - 226 Notes - 228 Credits Weimar War Films - 292 Archives and Libraries - 304 Bibliography - 306 Index of names - 320 Index of subjects - 326
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Filmfront Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933)
by Bernadette Kester
Amsterdam University Press, 2003 Paper: 978-90-5356-597-1 Cloth: 978-90-5356-598-8 eISBN: 978-90-485-0519-7
How was Germany's experience of World War I depicted in film during the following years? Drawing on analysis of the films of the Weimar era—documentaries and feature films addressing the war's causes, life at the front, war at sea, and the home front—Bernadette Kester sketches out the historical context, including reviews and censors' reports, in which these films were made and viewed, and offers much insight into how Germans collectively perceived World War I during its aftermath and beyond.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bernadette Kester is affiliated to the Institute of Military History in the Hague.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents - 6 Preface and Acknowledgements - 10 Introduction - 12 The aftermath of the First World War - 12 The War Experience - 13 Research into war films: film historians - 17 Siegfried Kracauer - 20 Cultural historians: Eksteins, Winter and Mosse - 22 Carrying out the research - 26 Press sources - 29 Chapter arrangement - 31 Chapter 1: 'Lehrreich und amüsant' - Historical films in the period 1896-1933 - 34 German film industry during the First World War - 37 Bufa and Ufa - 40 Screening the war - 42 Film in the Weimar Republic - 46 Censorship - 47 The military in film - 50 From relative stability to crisis - 54 Chapter 2: 'Die Legende von der Unschuld' - Films about the run-up to the war, especially 1914. Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand - 60 The Weimar Republic and the Kriegsschulddebatte - 61 1914. Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand - 64 'Zensur - der böse Engel' - 70 Emil Ludwig and the Kriegsschuldfrage - 72 Der Doppelmord von Sarajewo - 76 Brandstifter Europas - 78 Critical reception of 1914 - 81 Political context - 83 Chapter 3: 'Das Dokumentarische gewinnt die Oberhand' - Archival footage and constructions in war films - 88 Der Weltkrieg, an official outlook on the war - 91 The beginning of the war - 96 The battles of Liège, Tannenberg and the Marne River - 98 The battle of Ypres, the myth of Langemarck - 100 The battles at Verdun and the Somme - 103 Fort Douaumont at Verdun - 104 The battle at the Somme - 105 Somme and Douaumont, monuments for the unknown soldier - 107 Tannenberg - 113 History and tragedy - 116 Tannenberg without Von Hindenburg - 114 Chapter 4: 'Wenn wir Helden wären, wären wir schon längst daheim' - Realism and anti-war tendencies in four films - 124 Literary context: war literature - 124 Namenlose Helden - 126 Westfront 1918 - 128 The war scene - 132 Cinematography - 135 Die andere Seite - 137 Niemandsland - 142 National identities - 145 The reviews - 148 Comradeship, heroism and nationality - 153 Chapter 5: 'Auf dem Meere, da ist der Mann noch etwas wert' - Films about the German navy during the First - 162 The surface ships - 165 Unsere Emden and Kreuzer Emden - 165 Criticism, mythologisation and intertextuality - 169 Scapa Flow and the navy rebellion - 173 The U-boat films - 176 Die versunkene Flotte and U9 Weddigen - 176 Critical reviews - 181 Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - 182 Morgenrot - 184 The press - 190 Chapter 6: 'Neid, Leid, Tränen - das ist der Krieg' - Gender and war films - 194 Das deutsche Mutterherz and Deutsche Frauen - Deutsche Treue - 195 Motherhood and fatherland - 199 Suffering and love in other war films - 201 Companionship and betrayal: Ich hatt' einen Kameraden - 207 Husbands coming back home: Feldgrau and Heimkehr - 213 Epilogue - 220 The various narratives - 221 Myths - 224 Critical assessment - 225 Complex representations - 226 Notes - 228 Credits Weimar War Films - 292 Archives and Libraries - 304 Bibliography - 306 Index of names - 320 Index of subjects - 326